Pakistani schoolchildren raise funds for ‘Uncle Obama’
I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for Barack Obama to accept these funds. And perhaps a nonpartisan appeal to the next president would be wiser at this point. Still, it’s a very enterprising idea from a bunch of young teens in Peshawar — give us "books and pens," not "bombs and missiles": A group ...
I'm pretty sure it would be illegal for Barack Obama to accept these funds. And perhaps a nonpartisan appeal to the next president would be wiser at this point. Still, it's a very enterprising idea from a bunch of young teens in Peshawar -- give us "books and pens," not "bombs and missiles":
A group of schoolchildren in Peshawar collected 261 US dollars for 'Uncle Obama’s election campaign' in a bid to help restore peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Frontier province of Pakistan.
Holding placards and charts inscribed with slogans for peace and 'No more war and bombings,' the school children, mostly aged between 10 and 13 years, denounced increasing incidents of blowing up of schools, bombing of residential areas and displacement of families in the Fata and the volatile Swat district of the Frontier province.
I’m pretty sure it would be illegal for Barack Obama to accept these funds. And perhaps a nonpartisan appeal to the next president would be wiser at this point. Still, it’s a very enterprising idea from a bunch of young teens in Peshawar — give us "books and pens," not "bombs and missiles":
A group of schoolchildren in Peshawar collected 261 US dollars for ‘Uncle Obama’s election campaign’ in a bid to help restore peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Frontier province of Pakistan.
Holding placards and charts inscribed with slogans for peace and ‘No more war and bombings,’ the school children, mostly aged between 10 and 13 years, denounced increasing incidents of blowing up of schools, bombing of residential areas and displacement of families in the Fata and the volatile Swat district of the Frontier province.
"Uncle Obama we expect peace from you," read one placard held by a 10-year-old boy. Another chart, shown by an 11-year-old girl, stated: "Let us smile and play." They appealed to Barack Obama, the Democratic party’s nominee for office of the US president, to give them books and pens instead of bombs and missiles.
The schoolchildren said they planned to hand the money over to the local U.S. authorities to pass along to Obama.
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